Patna,(BiharTimes): Chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi said on Sunday that the details mentioned in the affidavit given by him on the eve of Lok Sabha election of 2014 is perfectly right.

However, he refused to elaborate as to how there are so much variations in the three affidavits filed by him with his own signatures on them within a year. For example in the assets declared on December 31, 2013 he said that he had five acres of land besides a house in his ancestral Mahakar village of Gaya district.

However, in the affidavit filed before the 2014 Lok Sabha election Manjhi, who was the Janata Dal (United) candidate from Gaya reserved constituency, did not mention any such thing.It would have been believed that Manjhi had sold his village property in these about four months period before filing his nomination papers. But that was not to be.In his annual asset declaration once again on December 31, 2014 Manjhi mentioned that he possesses five acres of land

and a house in his ancestral village. But the area of the house is somewhat different than the one shown exactly a year back.These variations in figures raised a question as to which one was correct.

Not only that on Dec 31, 2013 he mentioned his age as 69 years, but before the election he wrote 68 years and again on Dec 31, 2014 he said that he was 70 years old. When asked by the reporters on Sunday about these discrepancies he said that the figures given during the Lok Sabha election are right. On being asked about his age, he said “I was born in 1944 and just calculate how old I am,” he replied.

Senior BJP leader and former deputy chief minister, Sushil Kumar Modi, who is these days showering praise on Manjhi, however, said that the matter is serious as it is the chief minister of the state who is giving wrong information in different affidavits. How can this happen? It is for him to explain.

But Manjhi’s ministerial colleague and his camp-follower, Bhim Singh, see no wrong in it. He told the media on Sunday that it is no big issue. The chief minister might have failed to mention about the house and land at the time of filing his nomination papers. He might just have missed it.The minister further said that Sushil Modi is a big leader and should not raise such petty issues on flimsy ground.